wondering who their friends are here (pun on words)

by Jayson 4 Replies latest social current

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  Jayson

  http://www.meadmaker.com/joke/up/friends.html

  Simple Friends and Real Friends

  A simple friend can stand by you when you are right, but a real friend will stand by you even when you are wrong. A simple friend identifies himself when he calls. A real friend doesn't have to. A simple friend opens a conversation with a full news bulletin on his life. A real friend says, "What's new with you?" A simple friend thinks the problems you whine about are recent. A real friend says, "You've been whining about the same thing for 14 years. Get off your duff and do something about it." A simple friend has never seen you cry. A real friend has shoulders soggy from your tears. A simple friend doesn't know your parents' first names. A real friend has their phone numbers in his address book. A simple friend brings a bottle of wine to your party. A real friend comes early to help you cook and stays late to help you clean. A simple friend hates it when you call after he has gone to bed. A real friend asks you why you took so long to call. A simple friend seeks to talk with you about your problems. A real friend seeks to help you with your problems. A simple friend wonders about your romantic history. A real friend could blackmail you with it. A simple friend, when visiting, acts like a guest. Real friend opens your refrigerator and helps himself/herself. A simple friend thinks the friendship is over when you have an argument. A real friend knows that it's not a friendship until after you've had a fight. A simple friend expects you to always be there for them. A real friend expects to always be there for you!

  How about some more uplifting stories. Personal, cliche's stories, jokes, just something nice.
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  StinkyPantz

  This is my all time favorite poem. I think that this applies to everyone here:

  THE ROAD NOT TAKEN

  Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
  And sorry I could not travel both
  And be one traveller, long I stood
  And looked down one as far as I could
  To where it bent in the undergrowth;
  
  Then took the other, as just as fair,
  And having perhaps the better claim,
  Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
  Though as for that the passing there
  Had worn them really about the same,
  
  And both that morning equally lay
  In leaves no step had trodden black.
  Oh, I kept the first for another day!
  Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
  I doubted if I should ever come back.
  
  I shall be telling this with a sigh
  Somewhere ages and ages hence:
  Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--
  I took the one less traveled by,
  And that has made all the difference
  --ROBERT FROST

  It would've been easier if most of us had stayed a JW, but instead, we took the road less travelled an got out of the cult instead of living a lie.
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  Ghost of Esmeralda

  The timing on this thread couldn't have come at a better, more appropriate moment for me.

  Thanks, Jayson and Stinkypantz...

  ~essie

  www.ghostwriter.homestead.com
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  StinkyPantz

  I know that you're going through a lot right now so have a hug --->((Essie))
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  larc

  Stinky,
  
  Robert Frost is my favorite poet, and that poem is one of my favorites. I also like, Tree at my window, departmental, stopping by woods on a snowy evening, and mending fences.
  
  Departmental, while about ants, is really about organizations and reminds me of the Witnesses.